SOURCE: “Apprenticeship: New Almaden and Santa Cruz,” in Mary Hallock Foote, Twayne Publishers, 1980, pp. 27-37, 49-55, 79-84, 117-23, 155-58.
In the following excerpts from her full-length biographical and critical study of Foote, Johnson discusses the ways in which Foote's life in the West influenced her early writing; evaluates her first novel The Led-Horse Claim, her more mature novels The Chosen Valley and The Desert and the Sown, and her historical romance The Royal Americans; and provides an overall assessment of Foote's importance in American literary history.
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